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Oscar Armeria Zavala shocked the Dueling world when he won YCS Guadalajara with a Deck nobody saw coming – Six Samurai! Prepared for a field of Wind-Ups, Inzektors, and Dino Rabbit Decks, Zavala created a strategy that mixed explosive Special Summoning and big, simple attackers backed by a clever defense. Side with the Six Samurai yourself, and you’ll find a bunch of unique strengths at your fingertips:

Exploding into the Top 32 of the last two YCS tournaments, Tech Genus Decks have surprised Duelists with their strong defense, fast Synchro Summons, and killer Spell and Trap Cards. Several Tech Genus Duelists have managed strong tournament success, despite being vastly outnumbered by more established strategies like Six Samurai. Samurai are still one of the most popular Decks in major competition, and Duels between Samurai and Tech Genus have some really interesting ins and outs. The Monday Night Matchup is back, and tonight we’re talking about some of the finer points when this newcomer takes on the established heavyweight! It’s…

Extreme Victory has a bunch of new cards for Six Samurai Duelists! From Shien’s Dojo to Shien’s Advisor, there are lots of choices to make when you sit down to build your new and improved Six Samurai Deck. One of the best new cards is also the most overlooked: Elder of the Six Samurai. Itcreates new combos that can help your Deck do things more consistently, as well as help your Deck do some new things too.

The Six Samurai have awesome search cards that let them get to the right monster at the right time. They also have 1 of the best Synchro Monsters ever: Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En. ExtremeVictory brings Samurai Duelists a card that takes both of those strengths to new heights.

Each time a "Six Samurai" monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned, place 1 Bushido Counter on this card. You can send this card to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 "Shien" or "Six Samurai" Effect Monster from your Main Deck, whose Level is less than or equal to the number of Bushido Counters on this card.

Shien’sDojo helps you get to the monsters you need, and makes it even easier to Synchro Summon Legendary Six Samurai – Shi En. It doesn’t just make Samurai more flexible: it introduces some entirely new combos that didn’t exist before.

Now that YCS Charlotte has come and gone, it’s time to look back and figure out what matchups are going to be the most prominent in the coming month. After all, the more you know about them, the better your chances of winning are. One of the big new matchups that we saw at YCS Charlotte was the Dragunity versus Six Samurai.

This matchup happened many times throughout the tournament to be sure, and we even saw a Feature Match happen in Round 8 where we saw Samurai duelist, and eventual winner of YCS Charlotte, Sean Coovert, take a very close victory against Dragunity Duelist Anthony Alvarado. Despite some less than stellar hands, Alvarado was still able to fight Coovert to a close Duel 3 where he finally took his first loss of the tournament, giving Coovert 24 packs in the process because of his status as a Bounty Duelist. But how indicative is this of how the matchup usually goes?Read more…